But repeating a course isn't a decision to make lightly. Make sure to consider your motivations and understand the rules and repercussions before deciding to take a course for the second time. For the university's official policy statement on repeat courses, consult the Bulletin and Registrar's website linked below.
Nevada Compilation of School Discipline Laws and Regulations Prepared: January 31, 2020 Introduction
If you choose to repeat a non-repeatable-for-credit class, the second grade will replace the first grade in your GPA calculation. The course will still show up on your transcript twice, but the first grade will be overwritten by the notation "RP," meaning "repeated."
New federal financial aid regulations limit the number of times a student may repeat a course and receive federal financial aid for that course.
Test-based grade promotion and retention policies have been put into place by 17 states and numerous school districts in the past 20 years. These policies require students to repeat a grade if they do not meet a minimum academic performance level.
Students in most programs can repeat a passed or failed course twice for degree or certificate credit, to a maximum of three attempts per course. Although the previous attempts remain on your academic record, only the most recent attempt counts toward your credit totals and grade point averages.
One can repeat any UNLV course once at UNLV and have the original grade removed from your GPA. Courses that are initially taken at UNLV must be repeated at UNLV in order to have the initial grade removed from the computation of the GPA.
4) Repeating a course makes a positive point to those who may evaluate your record that you are a highly motivated individual. You make clear that there were problems with a course in the past but you were committed to earning a higher grade by taking the course again.
Students may not use this one-time-only allowance to subsequently repeat a passed course again after having repeated the same course for reasons noted in i) above, i.e., they may repeat a specific passed course only once.
The second grade always replaces the first grade. However, you can retake a class and get a worse grade. For example, if you have a D (a passing grade) and retake a course and receive an F (a failing grade), you now have a failing grade in the course and will have to take the class for a third time.
Federal regulations require that financial aid may only be awarded to an undergraduate, graduate, or a professional student once for a previously passed course (i.e., one repetition per class).
Once a Repeated Class Can No Longer Be Counted Within a Student's Enrollment for Federal Financial Aid Purposes. This rule may seem unfriendly to the academic career of student. The rule is federal law.
The earned higher grade is counted in the cumulative GPA. Per the Federal Student Aid handbook, students may repeat a course as many times as necessary to receive a passing grade and receive federal funding for that course. The federal definition of a passing grade is anything above an F.
Retaking a course may raise your student's GPA (grade point average). In many schools, if a student retakes a course, the most recent grade will replace the lower grade in the student's GPA. The earlier, lower grade will remain on the transcript, but will not be included in the GPA.
No. Once your degree has been awarded, your record is closed and no further changes can be made.
Generally, this is only the case if it's a core unit, a prerequisite for a subject you'll complete later in your course or part of the unit sequence for your major. You can still attempt to re-do the subject if it's not compulsory, but you may prefer to try your luck with another unit to make up the credits.
A student is allowed to repeat the same course and receive federal financial aid (in addition to assuming the office’s Satisfactory Academic Progress is met) until a “ D-“ grade or better is earned for the class .
If a Student Elects to Take a Repeat Class Within the Same Course a Third Time. Once a “D-“ grade or better has been earned, the class cannot be factored into federal financial aid enrollment eligibility. This rule applies whether or not a student received federal financial aid in earlier enrollments of the course.
Once a Repeated Class Can No Longer Be Counted Within a Student's Enrollment for Federal Financial Aid Purposes. It is irrelevant for financial aid purposes if a student is required to retake a class to meet major/program GPA requirements. It is irrelevant if a student has a personal desire to receive an improved grade.
This rule may seem unfriendly to the academic career of student. The rule is federal law. There is no appeal process and the rule cannot be overridden by UNLV.
Example 1. Tania takes MATH 1040 in the fall 2019 semester. She receives a C- grade and 3 credits for the course. She decides to retake the course in the winter 2020 semester in order to improve her grade and GPA. However, for her repeat class she receives an F grade and no credits.
For her repeat class she receives another F and no credits. In the fall 2020, she decides to retake the course for a third time. She receives a D grade and three credits for the course. Tania can repeat MATH 1040 and receive financial aid. Semester.
If the UNLV GPB (Grade Point Balance) of a student already warned by college probation falls to a -15 or below, the university will suspend the student for a minimum of one calendar year. A suspended student will not be able to take any UNLV courses. Students wishing to return to UNLV after their one-year suspension period has been met, must schedule an appointment with the advising center for their declared major. Please visit the Advising Centers page for contact information.
Note: the drop/add period for full semester courses is during the first week of classes.
One semester credit hour represents an amount of instruction that reasonably approximates both 50 minutes per week of classroom-based direct instruction and a minimum of two hours per week of student work outside the classroom over a fall or spring semester.
The total number of credit hours taken in a semester. For example, the average course load for any semester is 15 credit hours. Students registered for at least 12 hours are considered full-time.
For example, a three-credit lecture class meets for approximately three hours per week.
The Second-Year Seminar (SYS) is a 3-credit course that explores issues relevant to contemporary global society through the reading of original literature from antiquity to the present day. Students study these issues within their larger contexts, which include aspects of literature, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and scientific discovery. The SYS reinforces the University Undergraduate Learning Outcomes (UULOs) introduced in the First-Year Seminar (FYS).
Residents of Alaska, Arizona., California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are eligible to apply for the WUE rate.
Even if you remain in good academic standing, remember that you need to earn 180 units to graduate, and that repeating courses often means you are treading water rather than moving closer towards that goal.
If you need to fulfill a major requirement, check that you are acting on accurate information. Review policies in writing and ask your department if you’ve interpreted them correctly. Ask if the department allows for exceptions (for example, whether a required class you took for CR can count if the instructor passes along the letter grade you would have received). Departments have the last word on what fulfills their requirements, so it's always worth asking about your case!
Keep in mind that certain classes are designed to be repeated for credit, such as physical education classes, many creative writing classes, certain speaker series classes, and so forth. These special courses will be labeled “Repeatable for Credit” in ExploreCourses, and you can earn additional units each time you take the course again. Repeating one of these courses will not replace an earlier grade with a 'RP'. Note that individual repeatable-for-credit courses may set a limit on the maximum number of times that you can repeat them.
Most classes at Stanford are not repeatable for credit, meaning you can only earn the units for them once. You may choose to repeat the course a second time. But if you technically passed the class the first time around (i.e. earned either a Credit grade or a D- or better Letter Grade), you will not gain any additional units for taking the class again.
But there is a limit: You may not enroll in the same course more than three times. (A withdrawal from class due to active military orders does not count toward this limit.)
De Anza and Foothill College have designated “Course Families” that include related or similar courses from both colleges. You may not enroll more than six times within a family of courses, whether they are offered at De Anza or Foothill.
Repeating Classes and Class Families. If you’re thinking of taking the same class more than once, there are some limitations and rules that you need to know. Under California law, there is a limit to the number of times that you can take the same class at community college.
The repeated course policy was revised in Fall 2014. The below policy applies to D's earned prior to the Fall 2014 term.
The addition of appropriate prefixing to repeated courses will occur by the end of the semester during which the repeated course has been taken. If a student feels that they repeated a course and the appropriate prefixing was not applied based on the policy above, the student may email [email protected] with their name, RUID, and the course that they repeated.
A Rutgers University transcript records all courses taken at Rutgers University and the outcome (grade or withdrawal). Students may not repeat, for degree credit, courses bearing the same or equivalent course numbers, with the exception of courses designated as repeatable for credit. It is the student's responsibility to monitor repeated courses and be sure that they have earned the appropriate number of credits.
When students earn a grade of C or better and choose to repeat the course, it must be repeated for E credit. Courses with E prefixes do not lead to graduation credit and the grades are not computed in the cumulative grade-point average.